More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project's aim to map global ...

“Arctic nature and peoples desperately need environmentally sustainable management practices. A well informed and active public can help push for such practices, and these maps can help in supplying ...

A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

But, “The administration has awoken to the Arctic as a geostrategic issue,” she said. Greenland has been essential to US defense since World War II when it was a base for monitoring Nazi ships ...

Maps are being updated as global warming melts ice across the Arctic. Gumrf.ru Marina Migunova (file pic) is now a scientist in the Russian navy The islands found by Ms Migunova range in size from ...